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Re:JetBrains Thinkrail on Sunday October 25, 2026 @04:28PM (#50235750)
Why does AI-generated imply "not bothered" to you? If I take all of my design docs/specs, all of the existing repo, and I tell an agent that I'd like to make a readme that contains things X, Y, and Z, what's the problem?

Rejecting slop doesn't imply rejecting all AI-generated text wholesale.

The whole "recording glasses" thing puts a damper on that.
It's much more obvious that someone is holding up their phone to record than someone wearing glasses containing an inconspicuous camera and recording LED that may have been tampered with.
Re:Ask HN: CAD for wood working with LLM support? on Thursday October 15, 2026 @02:40AM (#50100071)
I'm now printing my 3rd or 4th totally Claude-generated 3d printed custom project enclosure. Opus 5.5 is quite good - it's been generating CadQuery scripts and exporting them as STL for me, along with image previews and so on.
Re:Apple HomeView on Thursday October 15, 2026 @02:36AM (#50100032)
My phone is gross; I don't want it on the kitchen counter or to touch it when I'm cooking.

It'll be much easier to clean the Homeview's big screen vs trying to clean all of the nooks and crannies on a phone (+case).

Re:Amazon pushes up prices across the Internet on Thursday October 15, 2026 @02:19AM (#50099913)
Shopify seems to be helping paper over that. I've recently gotten into a hobby of 3d printer modifications (prints are great, but I also seem to like modifying and repairing just as much), and I've been broadening my online shopping horizons as a result. Quite a few "standalone" stores online are linked into Shopify.
Re:Show HN: Give your AI agents access to WhatsApp on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @11:24AM (#49728486)
Businesses should be using WhatsApp business accounts. They cost money per message sent and don’t support groups, but it’s the officially sanctioned way to do it.
Re:My local model setup on an M4 Pro Mac Mini on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @10:31PM (#49531053)
It's a time sharing agreement, just like old-school mainframes and such. You're not getting a full machine to yourself, but a few cycles at a time.
Re:FreeCORE TrueNAS Core – Continued on Sunday August 30, 2026 @02:02AM (#49496078)
Yeah, I just run bare Debian myself. It's really not hard to setup LVM and Samba. And all of the major frontier models are well-versed in those things, so I used their help to get all of the various bits setup to make access from MacOS fast.
Re:Why travellers are obsessed with foreign supermarkets on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @08:53PM (#49369152)
Oh I totally love sampling all the new-to-me snacks. And they make great gifts for back home too. (Just mind what your country does and does not allow across its borders.)
Does Axon offer the same sort of national, single-database that Flock does?

I'm far more inclined to trust my local department to manage their own database vs. a single database that everyone contributes to and reads from.

Re:In South Korea, some savour last season of legal dog meat on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @05:15PM (#49367311)
Yes; I've genuinely lost track of how many countries I've been to - and I'm not referring to layovers. It is possible for one to forget about the cultural nuances of a country literally on the other side of the planet, though. Apologies for not appealing to your own specific experiences. And if that's your takeaway, you're missing the point entirely.
Re:In South Korea, some savour last season of legal dog meat on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @04:16PM (#49366615)
> Other than in terms of human opinion

That's the point though. We don't eat horse either in many areas, for the same reason. Ever heard the phrase, "cattle, not pets" when referring to managing systems? As humans, we tend to form bonds with specific individual dogs, cats, horses, etc. But cattle, not really. That's not to say the animal doesn't have the ability, but they don't easily fit into our lifestyle. (I can let a dog loose in my house while I go to work - a cow, not so much.)

No, we need to transfer a lot of power instead. So those with 800v cars need to be mindful to visit certain charger stations/types over other ones in order to get a fast charge, vs relying on the car to boost it from an older station.
Re:A handful of cities have replaced Flock with Axon on Thursday August 06, 2026 @01:41PM (#49199863)
It’s not a technical limitation. Nobody sees the need to build it that way though.
Re:LG ThinQ Terms of Use on Saturday July 18, 2026 @03:08PM (#48961184)
I concur about the picture quality of their OLEDs - it's incredible. But I can't say anything about their interface or software - I've not seen them for probably a year+ at this point. The Apple TV remote turns it off/on, and adjusts the volume. The LG has not been provided internet access.
Have you tried /usr/bin/say ? Might already have something sufficient for you - there’s quite a few voices there.
Re:Africans Are Turning to Starlink on Friday July 03, 2026 @06:14PM (#48780634)
Is anyone actually running new telecom copper these days? I’d be surprised if so.
Looking forward to reading about it in The Lancet or another respected medical publication.
Re:10Gb/s Ethernet: switching to a Broadcom SFP+ module on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @11:00PM (#48565187)
If the cabling was installed before the drywall, good chance it's stapled.
Re:SpaceX Is Buying Cursor on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @12:51PM (#48558180)
Wouldn’t Kiro fit the bill?
Re:US-Canada border library gets new Quebec-only entrance on Thursday June 11, 2026 @12:13PM (#48492339)
The nice thing about having a rep that supports my ideals is I don't really see the need to. It won't change anything, and I don't need to convince them.
Plus, decrypting using a key stored locally cuts out a network roundtrip, which has battery and data usage impacts.
Both Apple and Google offer the ability for your app to intercept and modify messages before being displayed. Use that to send encrypted messages and decrypt them there, using your own code on the user’s device.
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026) on Monday April 13, 2026 @04:18AM (#47749246)
Moving over to the management track and trying to not suck at it.
Re:JVM Options Explorer on Monday April 13, 2026 @04:14AM (#47749231)
Tell your developers to start logging the exception, not just a hard-coded error message.
It’ll work great if you can get the drivers all aligned properly. I’ve tried a few times to get my 12 year old Brother laser setup like that, and each time I end up throwing in the towel.

Maybe I’ll try it again someday with an LLM assisting.

The United States does not have a Secretary of War, and has not since 1947.
Re:Floci – A free, open-source local AWS emulator on Sunday March 22, 2026 @01:44PM (#47480058)
Sure, but that seems like quite a high gatekeeping bar for a test suite.
Re:Floci – A free, open-source local AWS emulator on Sunday March 22, 2026 @02:55AM (#47475096)
Not necessarily. Would you respond the same if the previous person said, "Was this built using an IDE" or "What qualifications do you have to write this software"?

Shit code can be written with AI. Good code can also be written with AI. The question was only really asked to confirm biases.

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